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Video: The nuts and bolts of Loki pt2

Sails, the rest of the cockpit and down below on the Rolex Sydney Hobart winner

This video follows on from part 1 that can be viewed here
In this part Loki's sailing master and helmsman Gordon Maguire and David 'High Tower' Sampson of Tower Marine Management, the boat's project manager, continue their tour of the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart winner.
Maguire and Sampson tell of why she has a gas bottle on deck, the important of the top mast backstays, why they have an HF aerial, how they are fully hiking in 7 knots of breeze, how they use the slave rings on the winches, the sail inventory and down below...
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